Genealogy Chat

Dear Elaine,

In your post at 19.41 pm you said :
"i find that i'm a 12 mth standard member....but when i click upgrade,it takes me to Platinum at £80+ per year!"

You already are a yearly standard subscriber.
Standard subscribers have to buy credits, as Sylvia has said, the only alternative is a Platinum sub.

That is a BIG help! Thankyou...now just have to find out how to get the yearly standard!

I think that would be sufficient for what I need...

Elaine

Free membership ..............

................ build your tree
............... read the Boards, but NOT post on them
.............. receive pms from paying members, and can reply to those members, BUT not initiate pms yourself


Standard membership ................

.................. build your tree
.................. post on the Boards, start threads, etc
................ send pms to all other membrs, free or paying
................. access the records, but not see any details .............. eg, can see the Index to bmds, but not any detail (eg who married who). You can see names that occur on censuses, and all other records, but not the detail.
................... buy credits if you need to see details.


Platinum membership ................

................. all the above, PLUS ability to see the details on MOST records.


Some recently added records are not open even to Platinum members .................. even they have to buy credits to see them (eg, military records, I think)




does that help?????



sylvia

i find that i'm a 12 mth standard member....but when i click upgrade,it takes me to Platinum at £80+ per year!
I clicked on gift subscriptions as jannieAnnie recommended,and found out the price of membership(12 month standard came up as £1.67per month,taken as a lump sum)
But how can i upgrade from buying credits to paying the 12 mth standard?


PS..on standard,if i see someone on another members tree,would i be able to message them,to see if its the same person as on mine?

The one thing that had me puzzled as not seen anything about it on the site and have been using it daily all this week. So no idea where Paul got the info from.

BUT ............ threads notifying other members as to free weekends on ancestry, or fmp have been posted many times in the past ........ and have stayed on the Board, with no problem.


and so that leads me to think that Paul's thread was possibly maliciously reported ..............



mind you, I'm saying that without having seen it, and I'm only guessing that it was just a "for your information" type thread.

It would have been taken off because it was advertising a competitor which is not allowed. Don't forget some of the Genes team are actually members as well so read the threads.

Non Indexed Birth, Marriage and Death means you can look at the original indexes, but you have to scroll through to find the entry you want. Quite quick if you have an unusual surname and a fair idea of the date, but not practical if your name is very common or you have no idea when the event took place.

FreeBMD is better, but it only goes up to about 1960 at present so the Genes ones are useful for more recent events.

If you want to see a 'side-by-side' view of what you get in Standard/Platinum packages, then click on the word 'GIFTS' along the top of your GR screen. It also shows a breakdown of cost by (edit: month not moth!) month/6 month/annual - and offers the 'credits' option. I am not exactly sure what the "Non indexed Birth and Marriage records from 1837-1983 (England and Wales)" records are that you get with the Standard package (but not the Platinum).

As a comparison, I had been a 'free' member since 2005 , I upgraded to Standard in May 2012 - at a cost of £16.95 - but also received 50 credits ( probably an offer).

This is from The Help Centre - Frequently Asked Questions.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/help/faqs?key=177


Standard Membership

This is available for either six months or a year (£14.95/£19.95). You’ll enjoy the same features as the Platinum package, but you only get access to the non-indexed births and marriages records. You can buy credits to access the rest of the records if you want to take your search further.


So I'm assuming they are the current charges if you become a new 'Standard' member.

Hi Elaine
I think a new standard membership is £20 for a year.
Existing members can pay a lot less.
See:-

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/

Thelma..what does it cost to be a standard member? When I first joined I think I was a standard member,but after letting membership lapse,when I looked to do same again,it seemed a lot more exp. Now,I might be wrong about that.

Credits are a more exp way,I know,especially if there are a few entries with right name and year..you have to look at em all!

When I went on the "free" access,I couldn't take part in discussions,or send messages to members about their family tree.

I am v confused as to what I actually get on free access or on credits. It's prob written down somewhere,can someone point me in the right direction please?

Elaine

Does anyone know if the free access will include all records?

I can't find any info for it.

I posted to that thread and have had a threatening email from Genes stating that I had breached their guidelines.

I believe the whole thread had now gone as some of the content was probably not 'bigging up' the whole concept of buying credits :-)

Elaine
Quote:-
I had to have some subscription,even the cheapest PAYG credits,in order to contact other members,re trees or getting help...

I am a "standard member".I can do everything that you want to do without buying credits.

There should be a "like" button on each post,same as on FB,so we can let the person know we appreciated what they had written,even tho we had nothing more to add.

Thankyou D. I am not well up on the initial thing!

Paul,I didn't see anything wrong with what you wrote.

Elaine

Yes I agree. Some little busybody, with nothing better to do, just had to bring it to their attention. :-P

That may be so, but I bet they hadn't noticed themselves!

Don't worry folks. I got an email from GR explaining I had broken the rules. They were quite right and I apologise.

'Please do not use the service for any business or commercial or charitable
purpose, or to promote any alternative commercial service.'